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Goods Transport Alliance announces strike against heavy fines from tomorrow

Goods Transport Alliance announces strike against heavy fines from tomorrow
January 1, 2020
KARACHI (92 News) – The Goods Transport Alliance has announced to observe a strike against heavy fines on national highways from Thursday. They also threatened to close main roads if the authorities did not stop heavy fines. For the last many days, the transport owners have been protesting against massive increase in rates of fines on various violations at all toll plazas on highways and motorways. The increase ranges from Rs500 to Rs10,000 on various violations. Addressing a press conference, Public  and Goods Transport Alliance chairman Asmatullah Niazi said: “Our demands are genuine. We have been suffering from the highhandedness of Customs Department also whose teams continue disturbing us by stopping our vehicles on roads, checking goods, wasting time and energy and imposing heavy fines besides registering cases against us.”